Watering, eh…kindly asking for some advice.

calvin.m16

calvin.m16

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ashashdf69 said:
You mean this regarding watering the plants?
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You could get a moisture meter but one that is worth a damn is going to cost you 200-300 USD. One example would be the Bluelab Pulse Meter.

You pair that device with an app on your Android or iPhone and it will tell you the moisture by stabbing into the rootzone, also tells you the EC. Really easy to use just always re-calibrate it every couple months.
 
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Fishmon

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ashashdf69 said:
Hello,
So i have this problem with watering.

plants are in their 5th week of veg.

the last method i tried with was pot weighting.
Plants are in 6liter (1,7 gallon pots)
so i watered the plant on sunday with 3dcl of water and it weighted 1739 grams after that ( with very few drops of run off).
Today, two days after is 211g lighter and the plants seems a little bit droppy. But when i feel the soil i can still feel some coolnes. Should i water anyway?

i think i overwatered at the beginning ( to often),and dont want to repeat the mistake.

Will post picture of the flower.
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ashashdf69 said:
So i got myself a small humidifier where you can set the % RH on auto. I have set it to 60%, lets see the magic now.



wil be ditching the screen for this grow, since i am not able to refil the tank without moving the net.
thanks to alll for helping out!
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I'll probably be laughed off the board but I'll make a suggestion. Get a moisture meter. I got one about 16.00 on Amazon and it saved my plant. There are a blue million varieties but the one I got is a gold color teardrop shaped head. It works. One of my two plants started having slow then no growth. Leaf clusters clawing down. Pretty sure I hadn't overwatered but used the meter. Noticed meter read fairly consistent low green range down through the pot then in the lower 1/3rd it pegged wet. These are in 5 gal fabric pots. Probed in several locations and always pegged wet in the same area. Checked my other plant with it and found moisture was fairly consistent down the pot then rose somewhat near the bottom but nothing like the other one.. In my feeble mind I could only think of two possibilities...1 being a lower root issue and 2 being a ph or nutrient lockout. Using a decent Apera ph meter in calibration I doubted a ph issue. Long story shorter I decided to flush. First bit of runoff measured over 2000 ppm. I'd been feeding 1/2 doses of nutes so that reading puzzled me. Continued to flush until I got below 600 then last jug I put in had 1/4 dose nutes and a tablespoon of miko bliss. It has perked back up. Leaves praying and plant grown about 3-4" in 5 days. More experienced growers are more in tune with plant needs, likes, and dislikes. Us newbies need crutches sometimes. Our first thoughts usually are to give a sick plant something to make it better when in reality it's balking because we've overdone something. My two were random seeds born the same day. I treated them both the same way. One flourished the other got sick. The little moisture gadget pointed me in the right direction. It's good for more than just telling you to water or not. Watering needs change over time also. Sorry for such a long post. Get well soon.
 
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ashashdf69

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Fishmon said:
I'll probably be laughed off the board but I'll make a suggestion. Get a moisture meter. I got one about 16.00 on Amazon and it saved my plant. There are a blue million varieties but the one I got is a gold color teardrop shaped head. It works. One of my two plants started having slow then no growth. Leaf clusters clawing down. Pretty sure I hadn't overwatered but used the meter. Noticed meter read fairly consistent low green range down through the pot then in the lower 1/3rd it pegged wet. These are in 5 gal fabric pots. Probed in several locations and always pegged wet in the same area. Checked my other plant with it and found moisture was fairly consistent down the pot then rose somewhat near the bottom but nothing like the other one.. In my feeble mind I could only think of two possibilities...1 being a lower root issue and 2 being a ph or nutrient lockout. Using a decent Apera ph meter in calibration I doubted a ph issue. Long story shorter I decided to flush. First bit of runoff measured over 2000 ppm. I'd been feeding 1/2 doses of nutes so that reading puzzled me. Continued to flush until I got below 600 then last jug I put in had 1/4 dose nutes and a tablespoon of miko bliss. It has perked back up. Leaves praying and plant grown about 3-4" in 5 days. More experienced growers are more in tune with plant needs, likes, and dislikes. Us newbies need crutches sometimes. Our first thoughts usually are to give a sick plant something to make it better when in reality it's balking because we've overdone something. My two were random seeds born the same day. I treated them both the same way. One flourished the other got sick. The little moisture gadget pointed me in the right direction. It's good for more than just telling you to water or not. Watering needs change over time also. Sorry for such a long post. Get well soon.
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Thank you very much for your input!
 
Dank Bongula

Dank Bongula

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Still looks like you are over watering...try just picking up the edge of the pot with thumb and forefinger right at the top...if your media is fully saturated it will feel heavy, with those tiny 1.7gal pots it will feel almost weightless when you grab it with two fingers and pick it up when it needs water.
 
Lenin1917

Lenin1917

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ashashdf69 said:
I have it, but i can not fit it in the tent. Less pots next time…

Will have to find some other solution this time.

and yes, small bowl of water did not help (no change in 1hr).
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Humidify the room the tent is in, that will raise the humidity in the tent. I don’t keep any of my environmental equipment in my tents. If it’s a big room or a basement you can pick up a good sized evaporative humidifier for around $100.
 
Lenin1917

Lenin1917

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Dank Bongula said:
When my smaller humidifier took a shit, I hung a wet towel over a small rack on the floor near my plants. It raises the humidity almost immediately but it dries out pretty quickly with the airflow so you gotta keep an eye on it and keep rewetting it. I only kept it a few days until new humidifier arrived but it got me through a pinch....pic coming, gotta find one
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If you use RO, distilled or otherwise 0ppm water in your humidifier it will last a lot longer. Mineral buildup in tap fucks things up irreparably and quickly. Went through 3 humidifiers before figuring that out.
 
Dank Bongula

Dank Bongula

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Lenin1917 said:
If you use RO, distilled or otherwise 0ppm water in your humidifier it will last a lot longer. Mineral buildup in tap fucks things up irreparably and quickly. Went through 3 humidifiers before figuring that out.
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This is true. I figured that out long before though, that stupid white dust on everything was the first indication haha
 
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wallywonks

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ashashdf69 said:
Hello,
So i have this problem with watering.

plants are in their 5th week of veg.

the last method i tried with was pot weighting.
Plants are in 6liter (1,7 gallon pots)
so i watered the plant on sunday with 3dcl of water and it weighted 1739 grams after that ( with very few drops of run off).
Today, two days after is 211g lighter and the plants seems a little bit droppy. But when i feel the soil i can still feel some coolnes. Should i water anyway?

i think i overwatered at the beginning ( to often),and dont want to repeat the mistake.

Will post picture of the flower.

thanks for input!
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Here is something I go by. If the plant is under watered the leaves and their stems will loose firmness and droop.
If its overwatered just the leaves droop and curl under the stems will still be erect and firm.

Overwatering causes leaves to turn yellow too.
 
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